Holder for brooms and the like.



PATENTED JULY 28, 1908.

THE LIKE.

R v a w m =i h =E W Afs. WELLE FOR BROOMS A PPLIUATION FILED D HOLDER AMASA S. WELLER, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

HOLDER FOR BROOMS AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 28, 1908.

Application filed December 9, 1907. Serial No. 405,689.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMAsA S. WELLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and

. resident of St. Paul, Ramsey county, Mindevice.

nesota, have invented a new and useful Holder for Brooms and the Like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for a holder for brooms, mop-sticks, whips, pens, pencils dusters and the like.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating my improved device mountedv as required for practical use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device including an object supported thereby, the dotted lines illustrating the uppermost position of the movable part of the Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the device on the indicated line 44 of Fig. 2.

In the construction of the device as shown, the numeral 10 designates a plate provided with a stud or integral pin 11 on its rear face and a screw hole in its center. The plate 10 also is formed with an integral hook 12 on one end, which hookextends forwardly and opens rearwardly. Another hook 13 is formed on the extremity of the hook 12 and extends forward therefrom. 35'

A loop plate 14 is provided and is formed with a slot 15 in one end portion adapted to receive and embrace the hook 12. A cross bar 16, forming one Wall of the slot 15, is circular in cross section and is journaled in the hook 12. The loop plate 14 is formed with an eye or opening 17 adapted to admit an object to be supported, and a lug or arm 18 is formed on the loop plate at the rear end of said eye and extends obliquely partially across said eye. The outer end portion of the arm or lug 18 is forked and beveled slightly, thus adapting it to engage the periphery of a broom handle or other object, contained in the eye. The arm or lug 18 extends outward and upward relative to the plane of the loop plate 14.

Inpractical use, the loop plate 14 is arranged with the cross bar 16 within thehook 12 and said hook extending through the slot,

' the plate 10 is mounted in contact with a wooden surface, such as a door, wall or oasing with the stud or pin 11 penetrating said surface, and the plate is secured in position by a screw 19 extending through the hole in the plate and seated in the support. It is the function of the lug or pin 11 to engage the support and prevent rotary movement of the plate 10 relative to the screw 19. When mounted as shown the loop plate 14 is hinged or mounted for oscillation by reason of'the interengagement of the bar 16 and hook 12 and the bar is confined in the hook by the surface on which the plate 10 is mounted. The loop plate 14 depends obliquely as shown in Fig. 1, being held in such'oblique position by engagement of the front wall of the slot 15 with the face of the plate 10. Any object, such as a broom handle, may be inserted from beneath into the eye of the loop plate 14 and be moved upward. In upward movement, the object engages the lower face of the arm or lug 18 and lifts it and the loop plate into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, at which point the loop plate is arrested by engagement with the extremity of the hook 13. Then the object passes beyond the arm or lug 18 and through the eye and the loop plate falls into a position at right angles to the object as shown in Fig. 3. The object is then released from manual control and descends slightly until the forked beveled end of the arm or lug 18 engages it and binds it firmly in the 100 or eye 17. Slight manual elevation of the 00 plate 14 will cause the arm or lug 18 to re ease the object and permit the withdrawal of said object downwardly. In the event the object is of substantially uniform diameter throughout, such as a en or pencil, it can be removed by upward li ting manually through the eye or loop 17.

It is the primary function of the hook 13 to prevent such elevation of the loop plate 14, beyond a horizontal position, as would interfere with or prevent convenient insertion of the object through the eye or loop 17 The parts of this device may be made of iron, brass, aluminum, nickel, rubber or any other substance susceptible of molding or stamping.

When this device is to be employed as a holder for pens, pencils and the like it would be made smaller and adapted in size to the object to be supported.

I claim as my invention A holder, comprising a plate formed with a hook extending from one end, said hook curved outwardly adjacent said plate to form l the loop, said lug adapted to engage the exa seat, said hook extended outwardly and treniity of said stop and limit oscillation of downwardly at its extremity to form a stop, the loop plate in one direction. said plate formed with a central screw hole Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this 5 and also formed with a rearwardly project- 13 day of November, 1907.

ing lug between said sorew hole and said. AMASA S WELLER hook, and a loop plate pivoted at one end in I the seat portion of the hook and a lug or arm lVitnesses: formed on the loop plate adjacent its pivoted STEPHEN I-I. SIBLEY,

10 end and extending obliquely partially across S. C. SWEET. 

